diff --git a/spec/schemas/ingest._common.yaml b/spec/schemas/ingest._common.yaml
index 944c846a5..b118be853 100644
--- a/spec/schemas/ingest._common.yaml
+++ b/spec/schemas/ingest._common.yaml
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ components:
           $ref: '_common.yaml#/components/schemas/VersionNumber'
         _meta:
           $ref: '_common.yaml#/components/schemas/Metadata'
-      required:
-        - _meta
     ProcessorContainer:
       type: object
       properties:
@@ -101,6 +99,8 @@ components:
           $ref: '#/components/schemas/CircleProcessor'
         inference:
           $ref: '#/components/schemas/InferenceProcessor'
+        text_embedding:
+          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TextEmbeddingProcessor'
       minProperties: 1
       maxProperties: 1
     AttachmentProcessor:
@@ -870,3 +870,22 @@ components:
             Specifies the type of the predicted field to write.
             Valid values are: `string`, `number`, `boolean`.
           type: string
+    TextEmbeddingProcessor:
+      allOf:
+        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProcessorBase'
+        - type: object
+          properties:
+            model_id:
+              $ref: '_common.yaml#/components/schemas/Id'
+            field_map:
+              description: |-
+                Contains key-value pairs that specify the mapping of a text field to a vector field.
+              type: object
+              additionalProperties:
+                type: string
+            description:
+              type: string
+              description: A brief description of the processor.
+          required:
+            - model_id
+            - field_map
diff --git a/tests/text_embedding_processor.yaml b/tests/text_embedding_processor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac1a98550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/text_embedding_processor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+$schema: ../json_schemas/test_story.schema.yaml
+
+skip: false
+description: |
+  This test story checks that we can create an ingest pipeline with a text 
+  embedding processor
+epilogues:
+  - path: /_ingest/pipeline/books_pipeline
+    method: DELETE
+    status: [200, 404]
+chapters:
+  - synopsis: Create ingest pipeline for text embedding
+    path: /_ingest/pipeline/{id}
+    method: PUT
+    parameters:
+      id: books_pipeline
+    request_body:
+      payload:
+        description: "Extracts text from field and embeds it"
+        processors:
+          - text_embedding:
+              model_id: "text-embedding-model"
+              field_map:
+                text: "passage_embedding"
+    response:
+      status: 200
+      payload:
+        acknowledged: true
+  - synopsis: Query created pipeline
+    path: /_ingest/pipeline/{id}
+    method: GET
+    parameters:
+      id: books_pipeline
+    response:
+      status: 200